The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia

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[243] INDEX S Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. abolition: and Cuban annexation, 36–38; linked with wage slavery, 25–28; lippard’s support of, 5 adultery: in Chester, 180, 184, 185; Quaker City and The Killers compared, 14; in The Killers , 61–62, 65–66 African American community: and California house riot, 16–18; and irish immigrants, 24–25; in Philadelphia, 7, 16 African Methodist episcopal Church, 16 Ainsworth, William harrison, 9 Algernon fitz-Cowles (Quaker City character), 14 The Almighty Dollar; or, The Brilliant Exploits of a Killer: A Thrilling Romance of Quakerdelphia , 28–30 Altschuler, Sari, 28 American Notes (dickens), 9 American renaissance, outcast antiheroes in, 11 Antonio Marin. See Captain velasquez/Antonio Marin Arlington, Byrnewood (Quaker City character), as capitalist/seducer, 8 Astor Place riot, 225, 242n3 “Auburn system” vs. “Pennsylvania system,” 9–10 Baltimore Sun on California house riot, 217–20 The Bank Director’s Son (lippard): illustrations in, 19, 22, 23; publication of, 12; title page, 13 banking, corrupt: and Banker Killers, 214–15; and Jacob hicks, 86, 91, 93, 133, 135, 240n23 banking reform, as lippard theme, 5 ‘Bel of Prairie Eden (lippard), 38 The B’hoys of New York (Buntline), 30 Black Andy, or the Bulgine (Killers character), 19; compared with Black herkles, 28; as cross-racial figure, 27–28; disappears in smoke and flame, 161–62; felled by Cromwell, 130; as figure of black resistance, 18–20, 19, 145–46, 147; groggery proprietor, 106–7; and Kate’s kidnapping, 106–7, 129; kills Cromwell, 19, 142; rescues Kate, 147, 161 Black herkles (Chester character): attempts to rescue ophelia, 208; compared with Black Andy, 28; felled by Charles, 203–4; as figure of resistance, 206–8; groggery, 193; murders Charles, 171, 206–7; and ophelia’s kidnapping, 193–94, 202–3 blackness, linked with working-class consciousness , 27–28 Blake; or, The Huts of America (delany), 11, 37 The Blithdale Romance (hawthorne), 5 Bloodgood’s hotel, 186, 241n8 Bob Blazes. See Cromwell hicks Bouton, John Bell, 39 Brazil: and slave trade in The Killers, 39, 79, 88, 134; and Zachary taylor’s message to Congress, 38, 164, 231–32 the Broker (Chester character), 184–85 the Broker (Killers character), 76–77 Brotherhood of the Union, 5–6 Brown, Charles Brockden, 4 the Bulgine. See Black Andy, or the Bulgine (Killers character) Buntline, Ned, 20, 30 “business man”: described, 62–64; Jacob Chester as, 173, 174; Jacob hicks as, 63–65, 90–92 California house riot: and black resistance, 18; in Chester, 168, 199–201, 209–10; events summarized, 16–18; impact on Philadelphia city government, 16–17; newspaper treatment of, 217–28; and Philadelphia’s reputation , 17–18; in The Killers, 7–8, 34–35, 121, 127–28, 144–45, 162 Cape May, mentioned, 56, 58–61, 176–80, 239n7 capitalist exploitation: as lippard theme, 4; in The Killers, 7–8, 26 Captain Jack Jones. See don Jorge Marin Captain velasquez/Antonio Marin (Killers character): as Cuban refugee, 35–36; death of, 134; described, 48; and independence movements, 48; and Jacob hicks, 7, 39, 88, [244] Index 90, 92, 133–34, 136, 158–59; letter to don Jorge, 56; revealed as father of don Jorge, 135; as slave trader, 7, 39, 92, 134, 158 Charles Anderson Chester/the loafer/dick hellfire (Chester character): confronts Jacob at groggery, 205–6; deception and forgery, 182–85; departs for Cuba, 186–87; “education” of, 173–74; election night plans, 198–99; expelled from college, 174; failure to trick Mr. Smick, 177–79; fells Black herkles, 203–4; as Killers leader, 194, 195–99; as lesson for youth, 211; letter to father, 187; murdered by Black herkles, 171, 206–7; pronounced illegitimate, 180; refused support by father, 174–75; robs father, 205–6; as “the loafer,” 193–94 Cherry hill. See eastern State Penitentiary Christian Advocate and Journal, on California house riot, 220–21 Citizen Soldier (Philadelphia newspaper), 3 city mystery genre: black heroes in, 20; influence of, 5; as popular literary form, 2, 30; The Killers as, 2; urban gangs as mainstay, 30 class consciousness, undermined by racism, 25 class divisions, as lippard theme, 4 class/race solidarity, in The Killers, 27–28, 47 clerk/errand boy: in Chester, 182; in Killers, 68, 74 Collins, Wilkie, 9 Compromise of 1850, 16 Corny Walput (Killers character), 96–97, 99–100 Cromwell hicks/the loafer/Bob Blazes (Killers character), 19, 78–81; confronts Jacob hicks at groggery, 131–33; deception and forgery, 73–78; departs on slave...